Wednesday, January 15, 2014

FSO: Rustic Flinders Street Station

My old flatmates Lily and Aloysius took me to a city tour and I fell in love in the places they took me.Flinders Street Station is a railway station
on the corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets in Melbourne, Australia.
It serves the entire metropolitan rail network.
is a cultural icon of Melbourne, with its prominent dome, arched
entrance, tower and clocks one of the city's most recognisable
landmarks. It is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.
The Melburnian idiom "I'll meet you under the clocks", refers to the
row of clocks above the main entrance, which indicate the time-tabled
time of departure for trains on each line; another idiom "I'll meet you
on the steps", refers to the wide staircase underneath these clocks.
Flinders Street Station is responsible for two of Melbourne's busiest
pedestrian crossings, both across Flinders Street, including one of
Melbourne's few pedestrian scrambles.